There was Bob. His booze problem was presented in such a delicate, bittersweet way. I loved the image of Bob all by himself (before he encountered the rest of the main characters) hanging out inside a culvert drinking cough syrup.

You can go right ahead and pick on religious folk specifically, as far as I'm concerned. The idea that we "must respect" religious views no matter what is as insidious and wrongheaded as that idea that right after a gun-related national tragedy is "not the time" to bring up gun legislation.

It's just a silencer. Sometimes they look like that.

You say " I really don't want to defend any religious folks here, but" (as if you were about to say something defending religious people…and, instead, you came out with a totally accurate critique: they're always the ones who cannot deal at all with (as you say) "major changes in the world around them." It's endemic…

Yeah, that church is as rudimentary as the "town" in Thor.

"I think the Rolls Royce represented his car."

It's the silencer. Glen found silencers three or four episodes ago, and they've been important to the plot; they provided a tactical advantage in the church confrontation the following episode.

I keep getting this ominous feeling like he's not what he seems and is going to be connected to some other nefarious plot (like, I was actually half-expecting him to uncover a secret radio transceiver under the floorboards)…but then I keep having to resign myself to him just being a boring illustration of human nature…

It certainly does. The comics are almost like The Lord of the Rings (if you'll forgive the comparison) in that the scope of the story broadens wonderfully over the course of the run. In fact, one of the miniseries or sub-series is called "A Larger World."

"Welcome to the party, pal"

I think the message was "Nails are good for attaching boards but they can also hurt your feet"

Let's make up terse-yet-meaningful Daryl/Carol conversations.

Right but we're supposed to be sometimes frustrated when they do it wrong for moral reasons and learn lessons; it's drama.

You're fired.

Nobody's ever satisfied. If they stick with one storyline for a whole episode the commenters complain, "Why did we have to watch these guys for the whole show?" (Even when it's Daryl and Carol, everyone's hands-down favorites.) And when they skip around people complain about how they "decided to jump all over the…

Why would anyone have to "ship" them? They were overtly involved from nearly the moment they met.

When Beth took Carol's hand in the hospital room, I expected her to intone "I'm with you now, Pop…I'm with you, now" (and then to cut to Carol smiling with her eyes closed).

It was cool how they skipped all the bullshit in the beginning (circling back to Daryl's arrival; showing how he'd brought Everybody Hates Chris; explaining how that was the figure he had told to "come on out" of the shadows at the end of that other episode; covering all the explanations to Rick et al. of what had…

I just realized that the attack on Sasha is what's going to finally propel Tyrese out of his Gandhi phase and into super-badass mode. (Cool.)

Sometimes it's the fourth word.